Monday, March 19, 2012

Prof. Fiazan Mustafa New VC of NALSAR

My teacher, mentor and guide, Prof. Faizan Mustafa, former Dean, Faculty of Law and former Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University, former Director, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of NALSAR Law University, Hyderabad. Prof. Mustafa is presently the Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Cuttack Orissa. Prof. Mustafa within a short time by maintaining a high class teaching and research established the National Law University Orissa and brought it to the global standards even there was lot of hurdles in his way. He designed a very innovative curriculum of NLUO and made lot of new experiments like 3 years LLM.PhD conjoint program.

Prof. Mustafa is the senior professor of Law Faculty Aligarh Muslim University and has vast administrative experience. He has a number of books to his credit, which have been widely quoted by scholars in India and abroad.Prof. Mustafa has specialization on new areas of legal studies such as Copyright Law, Human Rights etc. He has authored around 10 books out of which two books on the Right to information in 1997 and 2002 published much before the Right to Information Act, 2005 came into existence. Besides being a visiting faculty to a number of reputed universities in India and abroad, he is the nominee of Chief Justice of India at various university bodies.

The search committee headed by Hon'ble Justice A. K. Ganguly, former Judge, Supreme Court of India and former Chief Justice of Karnataka suggested three names including that of Prof. Faizan Mustafa after short-listing 10 candidates.

Legal fraternity of India have a great hope from Prof. Mustafa and expect that he will definitely bring the NALSAR which is number one university in India as per the current ratings to the global rankings at par with, Cambridge, Harvard & Yale Law Schools.